Art+Design
Experimental Work 2
This project concerns the idea of “alternate worlds” or “parallel worlds”…
This is a theme that has been explored in science fiction literature (e.g., The Man in the High Castle), and in television and film, but less so in art and design. The exhibition will feature images of objects from alternate worlds, carefully collected and curated. The concept, of course, is to explore the vagaries of history: how decisions and accidents shape our path through time.
A sample piece from this series is shown below…
This project is a series about the theme of "alternate worlds" or "parallel worlds" — worlds where history's timeline played out differently (a theme common in science fiction, such as "The Man in the High Castle"). My focus is on objects from those other worlds, and I've been curating a few. A great company in Portland, Oregon — The Portland Stamp Company — recently did some print production for me on a piece for this project, and you can see, then, one of these "alternate world" objects on their Instagram site (https://www.instagram.com/p/CcZBu_fMiXC)... Stamps from a world where the Brits were the first to land on the Moon!
Origin: Alt-World 5677-3b Catalogue No.: 5677-3b-12-2017-BMLPS Description: In Alt-World 5677-3b, the British space program (a modernized British Interplanetary Society) were the first to land a man on the Moon, an event that took place in 1968. This commemorative stamp was issued the following year. In our world, it was the U.S. that first put astronauts on the Moon, but oddly enough, in Alt-World 5677-3b, there is no record of any such space program.